Math 130: Quantitative Reasoning (Fall 2026)

Announcements

(10/1) Reminder, the unit 1 exam is next Thursday, October 8th.
(10/1) Here is today’s worksheet.
(9/29) Here is today’s worksheet.
(9/24) Here is today’s worksheet.
(9/17) There is an adjustment on the schedule. We will be taking another day to cover Section 1.3 about truth tables. The Unit 1 quiz will still be on the same date, but we will not get through the final section.
(9/17) Here is today’s worksheet.
(9/15) Here is today’s worksheet.
(9/10) Here is today’s worksheet.
(9/8) Here are the slides from day 1 of unit 1.

Week 6 Due Tuesday 10/20: Section 2.1 Exercises 1–4.
Week 5 No homework. Study for the exam instead!
Week 4 Due Tuesday 10/6: Section 1.5 Exercises 1–5; Section 1.6 Exercises 1–4.
Week 3 Due Tuesday 9/29: Section 1.3 Exercises 5–6; Section 1.4 Exercises 1–3.
Week 2 Due Tuesday 9/22: Section 1.2 Exercises 1–5; Section 1.3 Exercises 1–4.
Week 1 Due Tuesday 9/15: Section 1.1 Exercises 1–4.

This course is broken up into three units.

Unit 1 (9/8–10/8): Logic
- Week 1: Intro, Arguments
- Week 2: Language, Truth tables
- Week 3: Entailment, Semantic notions
- Week 4: Quantifiers, Models
- Week 5: Review, Exam
Unit 2 (10/13–11/12): Statistics
- Week 6: Intro, Visualizing data
- Week 7: Averages, Range and quartiles
- Week 8: Box and whisker plots, Standard deviation
- Week 9: Normal distibutions, hypothesis testing
- Week 10: Review, Exam
Unit 3 (11/17–12/10): Modeling
- Week 11: Intro, Functions
- Week 12: Linear models, Exponential functions
- Week 13: Exponential models, Logistic models
- Week 14: Review, Exam

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